Jetstar A321 makes a visit
Jetstar Airways A321-231 VH-VWZ. Made is 1st visit to Adelaide yesterday evening 17/5/12 arriving at 21.0hrs from Perth as JQ975. It later departed at 22.06hrs to Melbourne as JQ775.
The A321′s are very rare to the shores of Perth and Adelaide, they mainly operate flights along the east coast and up to Darwin where they fly to Bali and Singapore.
N767A departs…
ARAMCO owned B767-2AXER N767A which arrived in Adelaide on 11/5/12 departed this morning at 10.40hrs bound for Kahului Airport, Hawaii (PHOG). The total flight time is scheduled to be 11hrs 44mins. This is one of the longest flights that has dpearted Adelaide.
Challenger VH-ZSU visit
Revesco Aviation Pty Ltd owned Challenger 604 VH-ZSU arrived ex. Perth at 11.40hrs.
B767-200 N767A arrives
ARAMCO owned B767-2AXER N767A arrived into Adelaide tonight at 20.30hrs from Miyazaki International Airport, Japan (RJFM).
This is the 1st B767-200 that has visited Adelaide since 26/9/2004 when Qantas B767-238ER VH-EAQ made its final appearance.
Cobham DHC8-300 VH-SBJ arrives
Cobham DHC8-300 VH-SBJ arrived from Kalgoorlie on 11/5/12 at 00.15hrs. This aircraft is one of only a couple of aircraft in the cobham fleet painted in the old style livery with the black tail and cobham logo. The rest of the fleet has a white tail with the cobham logo.
VH-SBJ up until 2010 was with QantasLink flying along the east coast of Australia. In late 2010 it was then transferred to the Cobham fleet. It had maintaince and repainted done in Adelaide then was deplayed to the airlines operations in Perth where it has been flying to various ports.
Qantaslink Kalgoorlie flight schedule change
As of today 9/5/12 the twice weekly Kalgoorlie-Adelaide-Kalgoorlie B717 service has changed days of operation. The Sunday flight remains unchanghed, however the Tuesday flight has been changed to Wednesday. New Schedule
Sunday Flight
QF1878 eta 1450
QF1879 etd 1545
Wednesday flight
QF1878 eta 1550
QF1879 etd 1645
Although the B717′s are quite common into Adelaide as maintainence are perfomred on the aicraft by parent company Cobham Aviation. This Kalgoorlie flight has been operating since 1st March 2009.
QF81 operated by A330-200 today
QF81 (Sydney-Adelaide-Singapore) was operated by A330-200 VH-EBH today. QF81 arriving from Sydney at 13:35hrs and departing to Singapore at 15.30hrs.
As reported last month, QF81 every tuesday until ocotber is scheduled to be operated by A330-200′s. There are only 4 aircraft in the fleet which are configured to international routes They are VH-EBG, EBH, EBI and EBL.
New Qantaslink B717 VH-NXJ arrives (with N902ME on it…)
Completing its delviery flight from the U.S taday was new Qantaslink (Cobham Aviation) B717-200 VH-NXJ. The aircraft arrived with its previous operators registration on it which was N902ME. It used the callsign ‘Southern Cross 919′ where it arrived into Adelaide at 12:45hrs.
Photo by Tony Haynes
The aircraft arrived started its delviery flight on 4/5/10 in Miami, then went onto to Billings, logan International Airport, then onto Anchorage. After Anchorage it departed to Sokol Airport in Russia. From there it went to Manila then finally arriving on Australian soil on 7/5/12 where it night stopped in Darwin. Today 8/5/12 it departed Darwin finally reaching its final destination in Adelaide.
Alliance Airlines start F100 flights ex. Adelaide
Another aircraft type has now began permanent flying to and from Adelaide. Alliance aAirlines have now introduced and based aone of their Fokker 100 aircraft in Adelaide. VH-XWT for the past two weeks has been operating two FIFO flights a day (Monday-Fridays only) between Adelaide and Prominent Hill mine. This move is due to the ever growing mining exapanison in the South Australian , also it isto the recent upgrade of the Prominent Hill Airport Runway which can now facilitate jet aircraft.
Schedule as follows…
Flight 1
QQ4543 ETD 0615 to Prominent Hill
QQ4544 ETA 0915 ex Prominent Hill
Flight2…
QQ4547 ETD 1445 to Prominent Hill
QQ4548 ETA 1735 ex Prominent Hill
QLD Government HS125 VH-SGY visits
Queensland Governemnt owned HS125B VH-SGY made a brief visit to Adelaide today. Arriving at 10:45hrs from Brisbane it later departed at 13:45hrs back to Brisbane.
This aircraft is a common visitor to Adelaide, however usually arrivng and departing in the wee hours of the morning performing medical flights which the aircraft is capable to do. Todday’s visit however appeared to be of a governemtn nature.
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